macos-security-and-privacy-guide

macos-security-and-privacy-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Aradotso/security-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (6,038 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A guide to securing macOS computers through encryption, firewalls, DNS settings, privacy controls, and other protective measures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review and improve encryption, firewall, DNS, privacy, and other security settings on a Mac.
Why use it?
It brings common macOS security and privacy settings into one reference instead of requiring scattered research.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to review and improve encryption, firewall, DNS, privacy, and other security settings on a Mac.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aradotso/security-skills/macos-security-and-privacy-guide
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Aradotso/security-skills --skill macos-security-and-privacy-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aradotso/security-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,038 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 4 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.06038
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.03019
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00604

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2685cbef393a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

macos-security-and-privacy-guide scanned grade C with 4 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo softwareupdate --install --all

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

sudo rm -rf /var/db/locationd/*

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
skills/macos-security-and-privacy-guide/SKILL.md · 955 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 955 lines · 34 tokens per session scan C 2685cbef393a

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macos-security-and-privacy-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aradotso/security-skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 6,038 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 4 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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